“How is the well issue coming along?”
Beau has it narrowed down to it being a PRESSURE TANK issue, and NOT the well, itself. Seems that the pressure tank isn’t telling the well pump to stop pumping when it hits pressure. We have had fine water pressure, so that didn’t even occur to us.
The sound we were hearing in the basement and the first floor bathroom was the well pump running and running and running!
So, he’s getting us a 50/60 gauge today at Farm & Fleet after he finishes helping the neighbor with a fencing issue.
IF he’s correct, the problem should be solved by this evening. Yay!
I got a LOT done after supper last night when he turned the water back on for me. I told him that running water is really a motivator for me now, so maybe we should just leave it off all day? LOL! Yeah - that’ll work with all the animals to water and as we go into High Garden Season!
Also - we need to have water running and available to the Heifers in the pasture and ‘The Girls’ will be showing up any day now. We’ll add Steer ‘Stewart’ to the mix, then he’s out of my hair for the summer, but I will miss his sloppy kisses! ;)
Eating from The Land, Your Own Hand, the Pantry:
Last night I made Rhubarb Sauce from the garden and Beau had it on ice cream for his evening treat. This morning I used the Rhubarb Sauce on plain yogurt with homemade granola. Win/Win!
Got a few more things seeded and in the greenhouse:
‘Sensation’ Cosmos
‘Jewel Mix’ Nasturtium (red, orange, gold colors)
‘EZ Pick Gold’ Zucchini (I’ll buy a single green plant)
‘Burpless Supreme’ & ‘Tasty King’ Cucumbers - want to do a lot of cukes this season for Pickle Relish and Spears and plenty of Cucumber Lemonade!
‘Thelma Sanders’ Winter Squash
‘Honeybaby’ Winter Squash (a compact version of ‘Butternut’)
‘Mini Love’ Watermelon - Beau is going to do a Watermelon Patch up at the cabin, since he’ll be up there most of the summer into fall.
My Tulips and Daffodils look so PRETTY - I will take some pix to share in the morning when it’s cooler and they are looking their best. :)
Got our invitation to the Twin neighbor boys’ HS Graduation, today! Cody & Jesse are two of the most decent kids on the planet; I adore them! Both will be going to UW PLatteville this Fall, working toward a Business Degree. Then they are coming back to the farm and running it and expanding it for their parents. That’s the plan, anyway. (This is the horse operation, next farm over).
A pressure gauge fix - that’s about as easy as it gets - yay!!
I was wondering if Stew was out with The Girls yet. My niece got 2 calves, Jerseys. Calves are in such short supply, she took what she could find.
It is 88° right now after frost warnings & temps in the high 30’s Monday night. Crazy roller coaster weather. I am trying to install landscape edging in the front - bed with boxwoods is done, now I am doing the other side of the porch. Lots of rest breaks, but the shade is creeping slowly over my work area, so that should speed things up a bit. I’m not moving too fast in the sun.
If your pressure tank has an air inflator and a balloon inside it may just need some air.
Yikes!
If the pressure gauge isn’t switching off the pump, and the pump has a lot more “lift” capacity than you are using, y’all are lucky the pump didn’t blow apart a pipe somewhere. There “should” be an overpressure relief valve near the pump, but, it would have to release as much water as the pump can provide at ITS max pressure, to not have pressure build up to “pump max” anyway. You’d notice that overpressure relief flow / mini-flood (mine comes out beside the wellhouse), but, that’s kinda the idea.